Health care

considering healthcare costs, medical care and access to healthcare. Health Insurance is defined as a type of insurance coverage that pays for medical and surgical expenses that are incurred by the insured. Based on a country’s healthcare philosophy, the insurance could either be social or government financed national health insurance depending on the cultural attitude and source of healthcare financing for that country. The principal goal of any national health insurance proposal is to arrange…

human right to health has been preserved in several legal instruments that are part of the globally acceptable legal standards. The idea that all people regardless of their socioeconomic status, level of education, age, gender or physical abilities must have access to unbiased and high-quality healthcare cannot be ignored (United Nations Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, 2000). Although this has been clear for over fifty years now since the inception of important health…

Despite the rising healthcare costs, the future looks bright. Over the last 60-70 years, the quality of healthcare has gone down, the cost of healthcare has gone up, and the patient experience is in dire need of advancement. Thus, the delivery of care needs innovative improvements. The future of healthcare will shift to a new medical model that will encompass prevention and wellness services, technology advances, and affordable payment options. Most diseases of today, both mental and physical,…

care practice, we need to extend our tentacles beyond our immediate bases. The healthcare professionals can make meaningful contact with people from different ethnic groups to improve knowledge around their health beliefs and behaviors, and this will help in understanding the problems they face. In the United States, the gap between the rich and the poor is so wide that the zip codes are being used to allocate resources and goods. The zip codes, therefore can determine the life expectancy. For…

Health care providers main purpose is to help their patients in anyway they can. Sometimes they may have to face a hardship on how to deal with a certain outcome, whether it be a test result or a patients reaction. For instance in this case of the sixty nine year old male with a background of depression especially when dealing with health problems. Nonmaleficence is a principle that ultimatly means we should not inflict evil or cause harm to others and not cause avoidable or intentional harm.…

While the need for Health Care workers will increase substantially as the Baby Boomer population ages and medical needs increase, there is concern that this need can be met as the growth of nursing staff fails to meet the demand. In December 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected in Employment Projections 2012-2022 that the work force for Registered Nurses is expected to increase by 19% from 2012 to 2022. In a 2009 article in Health Affairs titled “The Recent Surge in Nurse Employment:…

Today’s health care has changed and is still changing, how much has it changed; this is an answer for those who were there. My generation is said to be doomed because of our dependence on technology. We use technology from the moment we wake up, until the moment we go to bed. Everyone would agreed that technology play a major roles in improving healthcare. Health care workers, doctors, nurses, management, human resources, technicians, everyone is benefiting from this big change. Technology…

Introduction Medical practitioners serve an important role in safeguarding the health of the public. The health of an individual is paramount because with poor health, people are not able to go about their duties with the expected vigor (Government Accountability Office, 2013). However, there are certain factors that pose some threat to the provision of quality health care. One of these factors is clinical fraud. It occurs that some health employers and employees engage in clinical fraud. For…

the foundation for ethics and nurses are regulated in their professional work by the codes of ethics (Nursing and Midwifery board of Australia, 2008). Ethics in healthcare refers to the act of doing the right thing while delivering best possible health care (Butts & Rich, 2015). Understanding and applying the ethical principals in nursing practice is essential to conduct oneself ethically right (Butts & Rich). There are four core principals in medical ethics which address various issues that…

comes to health care the most important part is treating the patient and health care providers should be wanting to give their patients the best care possible. Patients have the right to govern their own body, autonomy, to choice which course of action they will take for their health (Paola, F., et.al, 2010). Legally and ethically it is important to make sure the patient understands not only what they are being treated for but also how they are being treated ("The Ethics of Health Care Reform:…